RE: [DMCForum] Re: God Squad

["Farrar Russell Carroll Hudkins" <fhudkins@xxxxxxx>]

Well, -- context or lack thereof -- was part of my point, um whoever
you are. (Psst -- sign your emails! heh heh) Anybody can take anything
from any book and use it to their advantage (the story of Gideon for
example). Since you asked, I have a KJV, a NRSV, and the one given to
me by my church when I was baptised -- not sure what version it is but
it's called the "Good News Bible". When I'm at home I consult a book
my late grandmother wrote which traces certain characters in the Bible
from beginning to end, kind of cool actually but it's never been
published. She used the KJV for all of her references and quotations.
As far as the quotations, I called up one of the online versions and
searched for certain keywords. My point was that you can take any
reading you want from various portions of any holy book and use it to
justify anything -- it is therefore best just to simply act on your
own judgement and sense of morality. At least, that's how I make my
decisions -- determine if something I do will have a positive or
negative outcome for me, and then see how it would affect those around
me. If it would harm somebody, I choose not to do it. I think people
take religion and religious writings far too seriously. Case in point:
this thread refuses to die. LOL
 
Have a good day, and quit lurking all the time so we can learn your
name. :P
 
--Farrar

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From: supremeadmiralsenn [mailto:AdmiralSenn@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 6/9/2004 7:04 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Re: God Squad



Okay, now I get to un-lurk myself for this list.

Farrar, every single one of the things you posted up to the Jesus
quotations were Old Testament, meaning Jewish, meaning before Jesus.

Plus, if God says to do it, I think it's okay. Best not to mess with
the big guy.

And as for the Jesus quotations seeming to incite violence, nope. Most
of those passages refer to the fact that Jesus was and is
controversial, and not that he was supporting rebellion or something.

By the way, what the heck kind of Bible do you have? I've never even
heard of 3/4 of what you said, and I've done some looking into the
controversial stuff in the Bible.

Oh, by the way: A lot of what you said was out of context. If you read
Luke 19 from the beginnning, that is actually Jesus speaking in a
parable, not speaking as himself.

It really burns me when people say things to prove their points
against the Bible, and it's all out of context.

Not trying to start an argument, so please don't think I'm bashing on
you. I just thought I'd get my say in.



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